PIANO BLUES: Cecil Gant Trio / Train Time Blues / Bullet 255 / 1946

Cecil Gant (April 4, 1913 - February 4, 1951) was an American blues singer, songwriter and pianist, from Columbia, TN, whose biggest hit was the 1944 ballad, "I Wonder." His early recordings were issued on the Bronze, Gilt-Edge, King and Bullet labels. The co-founder of Bullet, Jim Bulleit, said of Gant: “He drank too much... He would say, ‘I want to do a session’ when he ran out of money. We would get a bass player and a guitarist and get him a piano, and I'd go sit in the control room, and he'd tinkle around on it, and then he'd say ‘I'm ready,’ and tap that bottle; and if we didn't get it the first time, we didn't get it, 'cause he couldn't remember what he did. He'd dream up and write a song while he sat there, and he'd give me the title of it. And the uniqueness of the thing is that all of them sold.” Gant died young in Nashville, probably from alcohol-related causes. [Train Time Blues, Cecil Gant Trio (piano/bass/drums), Bullet 255, recorded 1946, matrix 255-A] The flip side of this disk is Sloppy Joe's:    • PIANO BLUES: Cecil Gant Trio / Sloppy Joe'...   Bluesy/Jazz Playlist:    • Bluesy/Jazzy